Recent content by Nellie

I use Evernote on my phone to take inspection notes and convert to excel at leisure at home.

Thanks Martin, I can always rely on you to hammer home the point. I don't give two hoots what someone else does, I do start to get somewhat peeved when their justification for why their way is better is to make up a bunch of stuff about someone else. Especially if that someone else happens to...

Oh Lordy, it's on again. I'm sorry there's so much tosh going on. Those that want to whinge that 'we're' all having a go at them need only to watch this to understand why. There's a big skep that takes a super, with frames, to harvest honey. But I'm a manipulating git who steals all the honey...

But the reputation of floaty, lispy, crystal lady might have been. Funniest thing I've seen in ages. Next week I hear some creationists are going to explain varroa destructor.

Agree they're worth more as foundation than as wax blocks. The hair dryer works a treat and a spray with syrup from a plant spray bottle as they go into a hive can also encourage bees onto them and start drawing them.

The point is that you can't think that you have EFB, carry out a shook swarm or other treatment, and then inform them after the event so they turn up to inspect frames of foundation, what are they supposed to do? If you think you have a notifiable disease you notify first, treatment comes later.

Agree with everything so far, only other thing I'd add is enjoy yourself, the assessors aren't monsters and aren't out to try and trip you up so don't be afraid to ask them to repeat or clarify something. The FERA booklets on varroa and foul brood are also worth a read as a bit of last minute...

Congratulations!

My last action was going to be to stab the git at the BBKA who signed off their website with mine :D

I had a reasonably bad reaction to a sting last week. While I took myself off to hospital and have subsequently been prescribed an Epipen I still don't think that people that should be trying to carry them as a matter of course. My reaction was fairly bad, but it wasn't anaphylactic and a few...

A question. Why are you only bothered about how much syrup you should feed them? None is the short version, a nuc comes with at least a frame of stores, perhaps two. You can give them maybe half a litre of 1:1 syrup but if it's not tipping it down why bother? I think you should be more...

Nitrile/Latex gloves are protection. That's a million miles removed from the guys with 100% guaranteed bee strain who can inspect wearing a handkerchief round their nadgers and nothing else. Do you need chain mail and those god awful gauntlets? normally no you don't, but people wear them as...

Missed the actual video until now :rolleyes: Thumbs up I reckon. Good talk, nice use of props. We can nitpick on a forum of beekeepers but I think it's a good talk.

My advice first and foremost is talk about what you know. You know beekeeping much more than (hopefully) anyone else in the audience. Don't pretend to be anything you're not or to talk about anything you don't know. Assume that there will be a belligerent beekeeper or two in the audience who'll...

I think muswell makes a very good point. Icing sugar, regardless of what you think of its efficacy, is often put forward as a 'harmless' treatment. It's not without its uses and I keep a box handy, but I no longer use it as a matter of course in my IPM.